Slime molds can have many different shapes and sizes.
The slime molds that you can see with the naked eye are basically big cells formed by millions of nuclei that move through nearly any serfaus for food.The incredible thing of this slime molds is that they can solve mazes.Although they leave sent marks were they´ve been they don´t have any brain so they can´t memorise.Even then they can know what are the easiest path to food discarding the other paths.They have even run complex subway maps.
Another species of mold is unicelular. When one of them starts to create an irresistible sent, it attracts others to do the same thing that makes the sent even stronger until the mass gets big enough to create a microscopic trunk with the new generation of slime molds in the top that will fall as spores to plentiful food.
These complex maxing ability and complex social behaviour was never thought on creatures like slime molds, but even without a brain, nature can solve the maze.
The slime molds that you can see with the naked eye are basically big cells formed by millions of nuclei that move through nearly any serfaus for food.The incredible thing of this slime molds is that they can solve mazes.Although they leave sent marks were they´ve been they don´t have any brain so they can´t memorise.Even then they can know what are the easiest path to food discarding the other paths.They have even run complex subway maps.
Another species of mold is unicelular. When one of them starts to create an irresistible sent, it attracts others to do the same thing that makes the sent even stronger until the mass gets big enough to create a microscopic trunk with the new generation of slime molds in the top that will fall as spores to plentiful food.
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